Yoga and Christianity
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Friday, October 08, 2010
Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler is making waves with his recent comments that Christians should not practice yoga. In a piece he wrote for his website, Mohler said the practice of yoga is at odds with Christianity.
“Christians are not called to empty the mind or to see the human body as a means of connecting to and coming to know the divine,” he wrote.
I’ll admit I have not done... READ MORE
The Passion on Good Friday
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Faith on Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Every Good Friday after the liturgy, my dad watches Mel Gibson’s 2004 movie The Passion of the Christ. Some of my family members always watch it with him.
I am never one of them. I saw the movie in the theater during Holy Week the year it came out, and I’m glad I did, but I haven’t watched it since then.
There are a couple reasons for this. First of all, I’m a very visual person and I have a near-photographic... READ MORE
Contemplation and Meditation? What's the Difference?
Posted by AGroup in Faith on Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Q. Father John, how is contemplation different from meditation?
A. Contemplative prayer consists of a more passive (and more sublime) experience of God. If Christian meditation is the soul’s inspired quest to discover God (our work of seeking God), contemplation is God’s lifting of the soul into himself (God’s work of embrace), so that it effortlessly basks in the divine light.
The key distinction... READ MORE
What Was It Like to Mother Jesus?
Posted by Sarah Reinhard in Faith on Monday, May 25, 2009
My understanding and devotion to Mary really ripened when I had my first daughter. I remember lying there in the hospital, the newborn sleeping in her little contraption, and taking up my rosary. The mysteries that day were the Joyful Mysteries, and as I prayed them, using a little meditation book, I started crying.
I had never thought before about what it meant that Mary gave birth in a stable. ... READ MORE
Holy Week Tunes
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Just me on Monday, April 06, 2009
There’s a lot going on liturgically during Holy Week, beginning with Palm Sunday. The Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday and the commemoration of Christ’s Passion on Good Friday take us to the Easter Vigil and the brightness of Easter morning.
Along with our normal prayer routines, my husband and I like to observe the earlier part of Holy Week by reading an account of the Passion from a different... READ MORE
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